Posts tagged "donations"

This holiday season, The Frisky staff is committed to giving back. Throughout the month of December we’ll be telling you about some of the charities and nonprofits that we support, why they’re important to us, and how you can support them too, if you’re so inclined. Who they are: Free Arts For Abused Childre…

This holiday season, The Frisky staff is committed to giving back. Throughout the month of December we'll be telling you about some of the charities and nonprofits that we support, why they're important to us, and how you can support them too, if you're so inclined. First up, Winona tells us why she believes i…

The onslaught of tax return documents starting arriving in my mailbox a few weeks ago -- from banks and places of employment (I had a few last year) -- and I began to feel the familiar and perennial angst; tax day is coming! I stuck most of them in a pile to be looked at…

Help! The Howard Brown Health Center, which has been serving the LGBT community since the ‘80s, needs donations, baaaaad. Two top officials were dismissed earlier this year for financial mismanagement of grant funds, and now the new CEO, Jamal Edwards, has regretfully announced that the center needs to raise $500K by Jan. 1,…

Here's one use for fake goods we can get behind. More than $3.6 million worth of counterfeit goods in the form of 109,300 pairs of shoes, 10,000 pants, and 2,592 sweaters were seized in the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaports, but instead of simply trashing the fakes, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection decided to donate…

This election is special, and not just because a woman and a black man are serious contenders. Us girls are donating more than we have in past elections! So far, women have given nearly half of the $100 million that Hillary Clinton has raised from individuals who have given large-dollar contributions, according to the Center…

When I recently purged my closet and wanted to donate some of my things to charity, I went to the closest drop-off center, a Salvation Army (also one of world's largest Christian organizations). The thing is, itâ€™s hard to tell black trash bags apart and I accidentally donated some personal items...including my collection of handmade…

Yesterday Drew Barrymore appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to announce that she was donating $1 million dollars of her own money to the United Nations' World Food Program, which is aiming to feed 10 million more children in Africa by Thanksgiving Day. While she was there, she also dished about her new boyfriend, Justi…